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.NET Core application, where is my EXE, how to publish

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This article has been moved to its new home here:  https://benperk.github.io/msdn/2017/2017-03-net-core-application-where-is-my-exe-how-to-publish.html

Short answer, there isn’t one.  When you compile your .NET Core console application for example, you get a DLL.  Then you execute it using the DOTNET command from the .NET Core SDK found here.

Check out some of my other articles I wrote in regards to ASP.NET Core and .Net Core

I wrote 3 other articles about a .NET Core console application here, here and here which resulted in the creation of a DLL called: helloworldsleepy-webjob.dll

I right-clicked my .NET Core console application and select the Publish… menu item, which opened a wizard, similar to that shown in Figure 1.

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Figure 1, how to publish a .NET Core application

Select the location where you want the PublishOutput to be placed and click the Publish button, see Figure 2.

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Figure 2, how to publish a .NET Core application, no EXE?

For testing, I then copied the contents of that directory into C:\Temp\helloworldsleepy-webjob and ran DOTNET helloworldsleepy-webjob.dll as shown in Figure 3.

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Figure 3, how to execute a .NET Core console application

It runs as expected.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2017
    If you do want to create an .exe binary, you can use a 'Self-Contained Deployment': https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/deploying/#self-contained-deployments-scdBut of course this limits the portability of your app...
  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2019
    I have bookmarked your article. I will definitely read other articles that you have shared.I read an article that David Catteuw shared. It seems to be a working way to create an executable file. Also, I found another way - to pack .NET Core application into .exe using BoxedApp. I haven't tried it yet.
    • Anonymous
      February 26, 2019
      Does this method work? How to do this?